All Pieces for Jim Sawyer

 
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It’s NOT the economy, stupid, says Alan Blinder, former Federal Reserve second-in- command. Instead, the 500-pound gorilla in the room is less econ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 07:01
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The perspective of this podcast series is this. The way in which the economy behaves—changes. However, the way ideologues think it ought to behave,...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:28
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The community common in feudal society was shared by all; therefore not a place to throw one’s garbage. But public rip-offs by a host of corporatio...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 04:35
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Over 5300 Wells-Fargo employees lost their jobs even though no senior managers were fired. This isn’t cross-selling...this is fraud.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:42
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On Labor Day, let’s consider the Rodney Dangerfield theory of labor. Coined after the now-deceased comedian, this theory along with a winner-take-a...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Where along the bifurcated Red-Blue conservative-liberal political continuum does one place Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump? Is h...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:27
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This week we try to understand U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s response to the Muslim father’s Democratic convention speech through econ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 05:19
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What is the future of American capitalism? Can it lie in consensus decision-making in public spaces? about defining what is and what is not product...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2016
  • Length: 04:33
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What does equine capital in a Grandpa farm have to do with Turing Pharmaceuticals and its bid to raise the price of a life-saving drug by 50 times?...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2016
  • Length: 08:57

  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:54
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This week, we discuss the economics and ethics of hedge fund bets on life-saving medication. What’s wrong with companies like Turing Pharmaceutical...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:45
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Science is a process of determining what is reality objectively. How do we sift the subjective from the objective for understanding economic propos...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
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Wheeling and dealing like Donald Trump? MBAs, capitalism and society

  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:50
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Some develop a knack for turning the housing and finance industries on their heads, into cash cows. This is what the Great Recession was about.

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:58
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The contemporary challenge is to describe economic reality—crisply—and to isolate fraud, rather than to look the other way.

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 04:02
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Economic conservatives, like their social twins, have swooned at big government deficits to fund recession-oriented rescues. Adamantly—government ...

  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
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Harsh rhetoric in the 2016 Republican presidential race is a throwback to Frederick Bastiat. Mid-19th Century, he portrayed government as a waster...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:54
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The First Glitch of Doctrinal Capitalism is Say’s Law that declares supply creates demand. Consequently, there can be no unsold goods nor unemploy...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:53
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Entrepreneurs may rationalize themselves as they segue into pseudo-capitalists whose behavior does not align with the common good.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:44
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Fraud is deception; some frauds are legal, and the gray area in which fraud is commonplace is expanding due to doctrinal imprecision about the legi...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:55